Jameco Electronics 2000 manual Transmit Serial Data Timing, Rabbit 3000 Microprocessor

12.4 Transmit Serial Data Timing

On transmit, if the interrupts are enabled, an interrupt is requested when the transmit regis- ter becomes empty and, in addition, an interrupt occurs when the shift register and trans- mit register both become empty, that is, when the transmitter becomes idle. The shift register is empty when the last bit is shifted out. When the transmit data register contains data and the shift register finishes sending data, the data bits are clocked from the transmit register to the shift register, and the shift register is never idle. The interrupt request is cleared either by writing to the data register or by writing to the status register (which does not affect the status register). The data register normally is clocked into the shift register each time the shift register finishes sending data, leaving the data register empty. This causes an interrupt request. The interrupt routine normally answers the interrupt before the shift register runs dry (9 to 11 baud clocks, depending on the mode of operation). The interrupt routine stores the next data item in the data register, clearing the interrupt request and supplying the next data bits to be sent. When all the characters have been sent, the interrupt service routine answers the interrupt once the data register becomes empty. Since it has no more data, it clears the interrupt request by storing to the status register. At this point the routine should check if the shift register is empty; normally it won’t be. If it is, because the interrupt was answered late, the interrupt routine should do any final cleanup and store to the status register again in case the shift register became empty after the pending interrupt is cleared. Normally, though, the interrupt service routine will return and there will be a final interrupt to give the routine a chance to disable the output buffers, as in the case for RS-485 transmission.

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